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A detailed first-hand account-and critical analysis-of the impact of the first contingent of American Peace Corps volunteers to live and work in Nepal, arriving in 1962 just following the King's seizure of absolute power and the tentative opening of the country to the outside world. The account not only explores the successes and failures of the volunteers in their efforts to have a positive effect on Nepalese development, but also the reverse effects of their transformative experience on the lives of the volunteers themselves. The narrative is further expanded as the author places the mission in the broader perspective of the globalization process that has so expanded our world in the past 50 years.
A richly rewarding account for all with interests in globalization, social change, and transnational anthropology.
About the author
Dr James F. Fisher has done fieldwork in Nepal off and on over the last 35 years-on Magar village economics and ecology, on education and tourism among Sherpas near Mount Everest, and more recently on a person-centered ethnography of a Brahmin human rights activist. As a visiting Fulbright Professor, he spent two years helping start a new Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tribhuvan University.
Dr. Fisher was Professor of Anthropology at Carleton College for some 38 years-retiring in 2009, he is now Chair of Sociology and Anthropology at a new college he is helping to start in Bhutan.
